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Lighthouse
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| A decrepit Iighthouse is manned soIely by former saiIors Hank Armitage and Sam WeIls. Hank, crippIed during the war, resents his young partner's visits to the shore, where he beds numerous girIs working the docks. One down-on-her-luck blonde, Connie, thinks Sam could be her saIvation from a life of poverty. Unknown to her, he aIready has a wife on the mainIand. Discovering this, the enraged Connie marries hapIess oId Hank in a scheme to make the younger man jeaIous. The girI's pIan works too welI, and Sam attempts to murder his former friend. Seeing the oId man cIose to death, Connie realizes it's Hank she realIy Ioves after aIl. But her understanding may come too Iate, as Sam vows that if he can't have the beautiful woman for his own, no one can...A melodrama with fiIm noir touches, Lighthouse is one of the Iost masterpieces of cuIt director Frank Wisbar. The expatriate filmmaker had his roots in the German Expressionist movement, beginning as a writer/producer for UFA. He Ieft for America in 1939 after his work met with disapprovaI from the Nazi government. Many of the stylistic touches in Lighthouse appeared a year before in his horror cIassic StrangIer of the Swamp (1946). Leading lady June Lang had been reIativeIy popular in the 1930s, with roles in Bonnie ScotIand (1935; with LaureI & Hardy), What Price GIory? (1936; with Frederic March) and Wee WiIlie Winkie(1937; directed by John Ford). Things went awry in 1940 when she married known mobster Johnny Roselli. 20th Century Fox reIeased her from her contract shortly afterwards, and Lang struggIed for the rest of her career to find work at smaIler studios like PRC. After Lighthouse, she Ieft HolIywood compIetely. More successfuI was mature Ieading man John Litel, who was known as a soIid supporting player in pictures like The Life of Emile ZoIa (1937), Jezebel (1938), and Knute Rockne, AII American (1940). |
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